To observe the work of others, helps you keep current, raise your bar and improve your skills as well as keep updated on new techniques and technologies you can apply in your website designs.

Here are ten web design trends you should bear in mind this year:

1. Animated Gifs and Cinemagraphs.

They are high-quality videos or gif animations that run in a continuous loop.

These have gained recent popularity, and rightfully so.

Simple videos, frame by frame animated gifs or static pictures with a simple detail in motion, can be visually striking and bring visual interest to other static pages.

In Flixel you can watch some examples of these so-called cinemagraphs.

2. Big bold typographies.

With the wide variety of impeccably designed typographies available nowadays, it’s only logical that they would take a significant role in web design, being considered as a design element.

Also as the tendency is to shift the focus towards the content, it’s no surprise that more websites nowadays use bigger and bolder typographies to convey their message, being an excellent way to attract attention.

4. Bright Colors.

You surely remember what I have mentioned before about the importance of color. It isn’t different in web design, given its ability to positively impact the user’s emotions and interests —which translates into conversions.

Bright and bold colors attract attention, and the current trends show that we should not be shy when using bright colors.

The section colors for 2017 in the Pantone website is a good place to look for inspiration on which colors to use.

5. Geometric Patterns and Decorative Elements.

Lately, it’s more common to see the use of graphic elements and geometric patterns as decorative elements due to the shift of focus on the details.

Nowadays a departure from the minimalist concept of form follows functions that can be observed and detached parts or fragments if you will begin to appear with a purely decorative purpose which adds to the still minimalist design.

Here we have an excellent example of the use of these elements with movement.